Raise the Hammer

Comment 59784

It's not as if asbestos in an old building is really unusual any way. If we were to rip down every building that'd ever had asbestos in it, we'd have a lot of people living, working, and going to school in tents.

In any case, whatever costs would have been necessary when the building was originally purchased would be tiny compared to what is now required after years of neglect, vacancy, and structural damage during the HMP demolition.

"Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century."
— Lewis Mumford